I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.
Being an only child, I didn’t have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
When you value your family over anything else you’re always going in the right direction.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
He that raises a large Family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand, as Watts says, a broader Mark for Sorrow; but then he stands a broader Mark for Pleasure too.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
Family is who you choose to be your family. It doesn’t necessarily have to be your biological family. Your biological family can be horrible and it’s the family that you choose and the people that you decide to love you and to love back that matter.
Family is what grounds you.